By now, you’ve likely seen footage of the New Year’s swell that slammed into Portugal’s famed beast-wave, Nazaré. “The hype of the new year swell was huge so every big-wave surfer in Nazare skipped the New Year’s party in hope to find liquid bombs the next day,” wrote Sebastian Steudtner on Youtube. And it paid off!
Steudtner was joined by some of the usual Nazaré suspects: Ross Clarke-Jones, Jarryd Foster, Lucas Chumbo, Axi Muniain, Jerome Sahyoun, and Mick Corbett all showed up to fling themselves down some of the biggest waves the ocean has to offer.
